Hmm, but I'm looking at package listings in a mirror and while a lot of gnome programs (settings, etc) are gnome 26, gnome shell and some other programs (nautilus) are 3.22. This agrees with what I'm seeing in the install. It's a mixed bag

@chaskes closest might be my "Why do the repositories not have the latest versions of software" question which I had asked in order for it to be a canonical question that "Why doesn't Ubuntu VERSION have the latest version of XYZ?"

@Seth Plant paradox also says certain high fibers are bad, like brown rice. So it's a balance between the right kinds of whole grains, not just everything whole. I haven't gone whole hog, but I've cut bell peppers, zucchini, and beans. Give it a skim. Library should have it.

lol I asked my mum and she said "if I'm in the chip shop I'll say 'two fish' [my mum has been vegetarian for about 3 years now, so she doesn't say that any more] but if I'm looking at some fish swimming I'll say 'two fishes'"

@Zanna wait, but you have this exact distinction (usual plural vs. different kinds) in bread:breads? what about people:peoples? “people” doesn’t have a singular, but I think that’s not relevant actually, the semantics is similar at least.

when I got back from Brazil and went into a shop at the airport in London to buy an apple I was like OMG I don't have to construct the sentence in my head before I say it! It just comes out by itself with no effort!

I have ubuntu 16.04.
Out of curiosity, is there a way to see how much have you clicked, and/or which keys have you pressed the most in a period?
Like a system log or something similar, that could register events in every app/program.
For now, I don't want to install a keylogger, I don't even k...

I have a remote that I can ping from my macbook's terminal. But when I start my VirtualBox Ubuntu 16.04 VM and ping the same remote host, its not pingable and I get an error saying "Destination Host Unreachable".
Also, I am on my company's VPN when I do this and the remote host is on that networ...

Was helping a student just now taking a databases class. Instructions from the professor say "Copy the file from me with cp **/user**/professor/public/tal.sql" The actual file is in /home/professor/tal.sql -_____- I think this professor has no idea how Unix directory naming works and has no idea about crap in his own home directory

drat! just installed the new RAM (tested OK!) that came today and now I only get a black screen when I login. I can even see the panel for a second after login before the screen turns black. guest session and ttys work fine. any ideas where I could start.

@traducerad >, >>, and whatever other redirections are features of shell, which runs as normal user. Echo runs as root. So redirection won't be able to have root powers. That's why it's advised to use sudo tee filename. As for Invalid argument error, double check the path you typed, maybe there's typo. Double check if the path exists, etc.